Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1938 — Page 6

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ROTARY TEAM IS VICTOR IN JUNIOR LEAGUE ■ — Decatur Rotary Team Scores Easy Victory Over Pleasant Mills Scoring in every inning, the Decatur Rotary club team in the Ad- ; ams county junior baseball league | got away to a rousing start Wednesday afternoon, trouncing the Pleasant Mills entry by an 18-4 score. The Rotary players pounded out 1 11 hits, led by Hoffman and Lord with three safeties each. The Ro- , tarians were aided by four Pleas-1 ant Mills errors, five walks, and two hit batsmen. Schamerloh and Highland combined to hold Pleasant Mills to four hits, only two of which came in the same inning. Lions League Free auci easy scoring marked Wednesday's game in the Lions I Recreation league for the younger j players. In the first game, the Red Sox defeated the Pirates, 1 to 9, i chalking up eight runs in the first inning. The Cards an»T Tigers ran wild around the bases in the second tilt, with the Cards finishing on top by a 21 to 15 score. Rotary RB R H E Lynch, 2b 4 2 1 0 j Hoffman. 3b 4 3 3 0 Baker, 3b 0 0 0 0. Highland, c, p 4 2 2 0. Gaunt, lb, c 2 3 0 0 Elliott, c 10 0 0 Schamerloh. p. lb 3 0 0 2, Walter, ss 4 1 10, Woodhall, rs 3 2 1 0 i Bolinger, rs 11 0 1 i Lord, cf 4 2 3 0, Kuhnle, If 3 10 0 Hess, It 0 10 0; — — — — Totals 33 18 11 3 | Pleasant Mills AB R H E Clark, c 4 10 0 McMillen, 2b 4 0 10 Longenberger, 3b 4 0 ft 1 Harmon, p. ss 4 111 Archer, lb 1111 Holloway, ss, p 2 1 0 1 ■ Bailey, If 2 0 0 0;

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Sovine. If 10 0 0 Noll, cf 2 0 0 0 Feasel, rs.. 3 0 10 Totals 27 4 4 4 Score by Innings: Pleasant Mills 000 021 1— 4 Rotary . 512 244 x—lß Lions League I Red Sox 824 01—15 ! Pirates 053 10— 9 Hackman and K. McConnell; ; McClenahan and Garner. i Tigers 124 35 —15 , Cards 666 3x—2l Johnson and Gehrig; Lynn and : Whitehurst. o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE — W. L. Pct. New York 32 18 .640 i Chicago 31 21 .596 i Cincinnati 26 22 .542 i Pittsburgh 25 22 .532 Boston 23 22 .500 St. Louis 22 26 .458 | ‘ Brooklyn 21 29 .420 I Philadelphia 12 32 .273 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 1 Cleveland 30 19 .612 New York 29 19 .604 Boston 28 21 .571 Washington 28 26 .513 Detroit 25 26 .490 Philadelphia 23 26 .469 , j Chicago 18 27 .400 | , St. Louis 15 32 .319 YESTERDAYS RESULTS — National League St. Louis 9. Philadelphia 7. Boston 2, Chicago 0. Pittsburgh 2. New York 0. Cincinnati 6. Brooklyn 0. American League New York 6. Chicago 4. Philadelphia 7, Detroit 6. Cleveland 6. Washington 4. Boston 7. St. Louis 4. o iLEADING BATTERS j Player Club GAB R H Pct. Averill. Indians ... 49 ISS 44 70 .378 Trosky. Indians 47 169 39 61 .361 Lavagetto. Dodg. 38 139 25 50 .360 Myer, Senators 42 136 26 49 .360 Lombardi, Reds 36 126 15 46 .359 i _u o HOME RUNS Foxx. Red Sox 19 Johnson. Athletics . 15 ; York. Tigers 15 Goodman, Reds 14 Greenberg. Tigers 14

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CINCY PITCHER HURLS SECOND i NO-HIT GAME Johnny Vander Meer Hurls Second No-Hit-ter In A Row New York, June 1G — (U.R) — Johnny Vander Meer. Cincinnati's rosy-cheeked southpaw who last ■ night became the first pitcher in i 100 years of baseball history to pitch two consecutive no-hit. norun games, today wore his cloak of immortality with schoolboy modesi ty ' I He went fishing with his father in New Jersey. While the whole baseball world praised Vander Meer’s superlative performance in pitching Cincinnati to a 6-0 triumph over Brooklyn in the first major league night game j ever played in the east, Vander Meer ducked away for a day of trout fishing. If he can fish like he can pitch, it'll be a sad day for the trout. Behind him he left a record never before achieved by any of the pitching masters, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson. Grover Cleveland Alexander, Walter Johnson or any of the other immortals —two no-hit, no-run games in one season, and within three days of each [ ■ other. Last Saturday he entered baseball’s hall of fame with a no- i hit. no-run game against the Boston Bees by daylight. Last night he did the same trick again before 38,747 howling fans at Ebbets Field, who in the last few innings as he crept nearer and nearer to his hitherto unattained goal were I one with him. The 22-year-old New Jersey boy left shortly after midnight with his father, mother, sister, sister- : in-law and best girl for his home at Midland Park, N. J., blissfully j unaware that he has mounted the . baseball pedestal as the game’s No. ■ ! 1 pitcher. Youthful Bob Feller, j ancient Lefty Grove, big winner Vernon Kennedy, brilliant Bill Lee and reliable Carl Hubbell all stepped aside as Vander Meer j moved up to top of the heap. Last night's victory was his sixth J in a row. During those six triumphs he has allowed only three funs and 18 hits, one of the greatest feats of , pitching in modern baseball. In addition he leads the National j League in strikeouts with 65, seven j of which came in last night's game. He walked eight men. only ones to : reach base. His season's record is j seven won, two lost. As Vander Meer pulled off his ■ sweat-damp red undershirt in the I Cincinnati dressing room last \ night, Paul Derringer, his fellowpitching mate, crystalized the crux of just what Vander Meer had accomplished by saying: ''Well, I guess Vander Meer; silenced all the guys who want to * talk about how good the old timers ■ were." Now the greatest pitcher in baseball, Vander Meer three times in his short career was unwanted. Brooklyn first had him in 1933 and farmed him out to Daytcm, from where he was shipped to Scranton as undesirable. Then Scranton, a Borton Bees farm, sent him to Nashville in part, payment for Tiny Chaplin. Larry MacPhail, now P.-roklyn vice-president but then Cincinnati I business manager, saw him pitch

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| a game against Atlanta in 1935 when he “walked everybody in the park except the ushers.” “The Nashville manager didn't want Vander Meer," MacPhail recalled. “but I liked him and obtained his release for Durham. He was a sensation there, striking out 295 and I got him for the Reds for j $10,000." Johnny Gooch, then Durham manager and catcher, helped Vander Meer cure his wildness and [ rid himself of his fatal habit of blowing up with a man on first I base. One day with a man on first. Gooch called for a pitch-out and purposely let the ball go by so the runner could advance to third. Walking out to the mound, Gooch said: “Now Johnny you don't have to worry about that runner on first. Stick to your pitching." I Vander Meer was born at Prosi pect Park., N. J„ Nov. 2, 1915. , He's 6 feet 1 inch in height and. weighs 195 pounds. Both his par-' ents were born in Holland. The dramatic stage of Vander I Meer’s performance last night came in the ninth. After retiring Buddy Hassett on a slow roller, he lost control momentarily and walked Phelps, Lavagetto and Camilli in. succession to fill the bases. After[ he walked Camilli, Manager McKechnie walked out to the mound •to talk to him briefly while the ' Reds’ infielders gathered around. The crowd yelled, “Don’t take him out." He stayed in, as McKechnie had no intehtion of relieving him. and

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faced Ernie Koy with the crowd in an uproar. The first pitch to Koy ; was a called strike. Then he hit a bounder to third baseman Riggs who threw to the plate, forcing Phelps. One out to go and Leo Durocher up. Ball one. Strike one, called, strike two. swung. Foul. Ball I two. Then Durocher raised a short fly to center which Harry Craft camped under. Last week Warren Giles, president of the Reds, tore up Vander Meer's old contract and gave him a new one. Since then he has pitched two no-hit. no-run games. The Reds pounded out 11 hits off Mutcher, Pressnell and Hamlin, the big blow being Frank McCormick's homer with two on off i Butcher in the third. In the other National league games the Pirates beat the Giants, 2-0; The Bees won from the Cubs, j 2-9; and the Cardinals outslugged the Phillies, 9-7. Cleveland held i the American League lead with a I 6-4 victory over Washington, the j Yankees remained a half game behind by beating the White Sox, 6-4, | the Red Sex kept pace with a 7-4 triumph over the Browns and the , Athletics outslugged the Tigers, | 7-6. Yesterday's hero — Johnny Van-j der Meer, 22-year old southpaw. | who weaved his southpaw magic to pitch his second no-hit, no-run ' game, a 6-0 victory over Brroklyn under tile floodlights at Ebbets 1 I Field.

JACK DEMPSEY FAVORS LOUIS I Denies Picking Either Fighter But Favors Joe Louis — New York, June 16 —<U.PJH-Jack j Dempsey said today that he "favored" Joe Louis to beat Max Schmellng in their heavyweight title fight Wednesday night and the odds on the Detroit Brown Bomber Immediately soared from 7-5 to 2-1. "I’m not picking anybody," Dempsey said. "This is a tough fight to figure—but I favor Louis." The onetime Manassa Mauler likes Louis' chances because —"he's younger, stronger, and I figure he will fight a different kind of battle from the one two years ago when Schmellng knocked him out." He pointed out, however, that if Louis didn’t go into the fight "throwing punches" he’d probably get knocked out again. “And that’s why I m not picking anybody,” Jack said. ”1 can’t be certain how Joe will fight in the early rounds. That is when this fight is going to be decided. Schmellng is a slow starter, and if Joe doesn’t konck him groggy in a hurry, Maxie will war mupanwdn i M shrdlu tfh'op warm up and win.” Dempsey’s favorable comment followed those of Gene Tunney, and Jiri Braddock, who unqualifiedly picked Joe to win by a knockout. It produced a flood of money

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